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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well as broad-based economic growth.

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Too many workers have been left behind as the benefits of growth increasingly accrue to those at the top of the income and wealth distribution. Equitable Growth supports research to improve our understanding of what is driving these trends, who is affected, and what policies can boost wages for all workers, provide for safe and equitable workplaces, develop pathways for upward mobility, and encourage stronger economic growth and stability.

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What is going on with wage growth in the United States?

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Strong unions push firms to reduce riskier debt, lowering risks of unemployment for U.S. workers

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Industrial policies will be more effective at supporting good jobs and a stronger U.S. economy where there is institutional support for worker power

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Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to strengthen unions and increase worker power in the United States

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A primer on monopsony power: Its causes, consequences, and implications for U.S. workers and economic growth

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Paid sick time and paid family and medical leave support workers in different ways and are both good for the broader U.S. economy

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TOPICS: Health, Paid Leave

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New Equitable Growth Request for Proposals for scholars planning cutting-edge research on paid family and medical leave

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The Opt-Out Mechanism for Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance: Could it Work?

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The Impact of Work-Family Legislation on Business: The Case of New York City’s Paid Sick Days Law

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TOPICS: Paid Leave
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Great Recession’s ‘lost generation’ shows importance of policies to ease next downturn

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: November 2019 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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‘OK, Boomer’: How millennials have been left behind in the recovery from the Great Recession

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Did Timing Matter? Life Cycle Differences in Effects of Exposure to the Great Recession

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The Long-Term Effects of California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act on Women’s Careers: Evidence from U.S. Tax Data

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New paid leave research demonstrates challenge of balancing work and caregiving

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JOLTS Day Graphs: September 2019 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: October 2019 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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Testimony by Kate Bahn before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee

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Experts on the issue

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Luke Elliott-Negri

Graduate Center of the City University of New York

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Hana Shepherd

Rutgers University

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Emi Nakamura

University of California, Berkeley

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Jennifer Laird

City University of New York (CUNY)

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Glen Kwende

American University

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